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Two vertical designs dominate the drawing. Natural forms such as vines and other vegetal forms create designs that are symmetrical and organized around a central vertical axis.
Étienne Delaune
Two Designs for Jewelry
1533 – 1566
Museum Purchase
1963/2.6A
A decorative design based on curving arabesque forms around a central axis also incorporates gortesque figures.
Italian
Arabesque Panel with Grotesques and Animals
1550 – 1599
Museum Purchase
1963/2.7
A plump sparrow is perching on a bamboo branch, which is bending from the main branch on the left side of the painting. The bamboo has young and mature leaves. The background is left as blank. The mounting is made of creamy silk brocade with blue green silk brocade strips. Brown brocade pieces are pasted on the top and the bottom of the mounting. There is a seal in red ink on the left corner. Wrinkles on the top and right lower side of the bid; some smaller worm holes and one large hole underneath the bird, but all repaired.
Kanō Gyokuraku
Sparrow on a Bamboo Branch
1550 – 1599
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1968/2.54
This is a very dense landscape painting. There are waterfalls, clouds, trees and cliffs present in the painting. The colors consist of muted greens and browns. Towards the lower half of the painting, there is a view of an interior with four figures present, three of which are sitting at a low table. There is a staircase on the lower right, with a man standing on it, looking upwards. There is also a house on a cliff towards the upper right of the painting. There is calligraphy in the upper right hand corner, with a red seal. There is another red seal, although a bit faded, in the lower left corner of the image.
Xie Shichen (Hsieh Shih-ch'en)
Summer Retreat
1533 – 1566
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1961/1.161
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